SRI AUROBINDO

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Songs of Bidyapati

XXVII

Wherever her twin fair feet found room

There the flowers of the water bloom;

Wherever her golden body shone,

There have the waves of lightning gone.

Wonderful beauty, golden-sweet,

How in my heart hast thou set thy feet!

Wherever her eyes have opened bright,

The bloom of the lotus burns its light;

Wherever her musical laugh has flown

Need of the nectar is not known;

Wherever her shy curved glances rove,

There are ten thousand arrows of love;

Eyes, for a little your orbs did see!

In the three worlds now there is none but she.

O shall I see her ever again

To heal¹ my heart of its piteous pain?

Soon, O lover, soon will she rest

Drawn by thy passion on thy breast.² 

¹ ease

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² O! on my bosom once to hold
Her boundless beauty and manifold.

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